1. Organizational Behavior
Dr. Amna Yousaf
PhD (HRM)
University of Twente, the Netherlands
Lecture 24

2. HRM Practices-Recruitment
CHAPTER THREE
HRM Practices-Recruitment
Lecture 24

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What is Equal Employment Opportunity?
What is sexual Harassment?
Defenses against discrimination allegations
Adverse Impact
Bona fide occupational qualifications
Business Necessity
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Discriminatory Employment Practices
Recruitment
Selection standards
Diversity Management
Workforce Diversity in Practice
Diversity’s Benefits
Equal Employment Opportunity versus Affirmative Action
Reverse Discrimination
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Introduction
Recruiting
Once an organization identifies its human resource needs through employment planning, it can begin the process of recruiting potential candidates for actual or anticipated organizational vacancies.
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Introduction
Recruiting brings together those with jobs to fill and those seeking jobs.
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Recruiting Goals
To provide information that will attract a significant pool of qualified candidates and discourage unqualified ones from applying.
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Recruiting Goals
Factors that affect recruiting efforts
Organizational size
Employment conditions in the area
Working conditions, salary and benefits offered
Organizational growth or decline
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Recruiting Goals
Constraints on recruiting efforts include:
Organization image
Job attractiveness
Internal organizational policies
Government influence, such as discrimination laws
Recruiting costs
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10. Recruiting: A Global Perspective
For some positions, the whole world is a relevant labor market.
Home-country nationals are recruited when an organization is searching for someone with extensive company experience to launch a very technical product in a country where it has never sold before.
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11. Recruiting: A Global Perspective
Host-country nationals (HCNs) are targeted as recruits when companies want each foreign subsidiary to have its own distinct national identity.
In some countries, laws control how many expatriates a corporation can send.
HCN’s minimize potential problems with language, family adjustment and hostile political environments.
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Recruiting Sources
Sources should match the position to be filled.
The Internet is providing many new opportunities to recruit and causing companies to revisit past recruiting practices.
Sources:
Internal Searches
Employee Referrals/
Recommendations
External Searches
Alternatives
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Recruiting Sources
The internal search
Organizations that promote from within identify current employees for job openings:
by having individuals bid for jobs
by using their HR management system
by utilizing employee referrals
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Recruiting Sources
The internal search
Advantages of promoting from within include
good public relations
morale building
encouragement of ambitious employees and members of protected groups
availability of information on existing employee performance
cost-savings
internal candidates’ knowledge of the organization
the opportunity to develop mid- and top-level managers
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Recruiting Sources
The internal search
Disadvantages include:
possible inferiority of internal candidates
infighting and morale problems among rivals not selected
potential inbreeding/stoppage of new blood and ideas
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Recruiting Sources
Employee referrals/recommendations
Current employees can be asked to recommend recruits.
Advantages include:
the employee’s motivation to make a good recommendation
the availability of accurate job information for the recruit
Employee referrals tend to be more acceptable applicants, to be more likely to accept an offer and to have a higher survival rate.
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Recruiting Sources
Employee referrals/recommendations
Disadvantages include:
the possibility of friendship being confused with job performance
the potential for nepotism
the potential for adverse impact
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